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Poulnabrone dolmen is an example of a portal tomb in the west of Ireland. Megalithic monuments in Ireland typically represent one of several types of megalithic tombs: court cairns, passage tombs, portal tombs and wedge tombs. [1] [2] The remains of over 1,000 such megalithic tombs have been recorded around Ireland. [3]
portal tomb: 5000–6000 years -Carnfree: Roscommon-cairns, standing stones - Carrigagulla: Cork-stone circles, stone rows - Carrowkeel Tombs: Sligo: passage tombs: 5100–5400 years Carrowmore: Sligo
Western portal tomb of Kilclooney More (Dg. 68) The smaller portal tomb of Kilclooney More is located west of the R261, in a shallow basin north of the Abberachrin River. The eastern portal stone is missing but otherwise the tomb is well preserved. The chamber is comparatively small, measuring 1.45 m × 1.2 m, pointed in SSE direction.
Radiocarbon dating indicates that the tomb was probably used as a burial site between 3,800 and 3,200 BC. The findings are now at the Clare Museum, Ennis, loaned from the National Museum of Ireland. [8] [12] Poulnabrone is the largest Irish portal tomb after Brownshill Dolmen in County Carlow.
[2] [3] The tomb is consists of two portal stones, an entrance stone and a collapsed colossal roof stone, which weighs an estimated 75 tonnes. The capstone is the second largest in Ireland after the one at Brownshill dolmen in County Carlow. The tomb has a single chamber. [4] The name Aideen is said to refer to Étaín, a figure in Irish ...
Newgrange (Irish: Sí an Bhrú [1]) is a prehistoric monument in County Meath in Ireland, located on a rise overlooking the River Boyne, eight kilometres (five miles) west of the town of Drogheda. [2] It is an exceptionally grand passage tomb built during the Neolithic Period, around 3200 BC, making it older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian ...
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Portal tombs – These tombs include the well known dolmens. They consist of three or more upright stones supporting a large flat horizontal capstone (table). They were originally covered with earth to form a tumulus, but often their covering has now eroded to leave the impressive main stone structure. Most of them are to be found in two main ...